The end-of-year holidays inevitably make me sensitive; The slightest stimulus creates emotions that I can’t handle. It happened to me the day before yesterday when I read the statements of the financier Ariel Vallejo about Claudio Tapia: “El Chiqui never asked me for anything.” I burst into tears. In addition to gratitude, there is also a lot of humanity in these words. These two boys know what it’s like to fight from below: if they got where they are, it was because of their tenacity, their commitment and also thanks to their friendship anchored in loyalty. Chiqui made him make a fortune, he took him to the world of football and then to the world, he made the AFA and the football clubs loyal customers of the Vallejo company Sur Finanzas, yesterday a cave, today an empire and I still can’t believe it, he never asked him for anything! He could have claimed the sun and the moon and the entire firmament; He could have asked for him to fan his neck, for it to be 50 and 50, and what did he do? Not a single word came out of his mouth that Ariel could have interpreted as great. If he is made of this stuff, he will not beg with Toviggino, his right-hand man, treasurer of the AFA and companion in his adventures. Life philosophy: Don’t bother anyone. All my admiration for the football czar; to the owner of the AFA, the ball and the whistle; to the world champion in Qatar. Greetings to the great Argentinian Chiqui.
“Health and pesetas” was the wish for these dates in ancient Spain. Health and happiness, Chiqui; I mean, given the context. Full of power, fame and pesetas, there is hardly a life hidden in the sign of contradiction. He marries Paola Moyano, Hugo’s daughter; Hugo catapults him to the AFA; He separates from Paola and fights with the Moyano: Sadness is not here. He returns from Qatar with the trophy, and the rebellion of Messi and the rest of the team against Alberto and Cristina deprives him of the opportunity to greet people from the balcony, a move intended as the birth of a political star; Peronist, more was missing. Kichi makes him president of Ceamse, but he came after the Macris kicked him out of the organization, an indelible stain on an unblemished resume. Put peso on peso, dollar on dollar, euro on euro, yuan on yuan, and suddenly Justice pounces on him with the VAR to check for offside. It is true that he did not ask Vallejo for anything, but he advised him to be careful; so that! The day before yesterday they raided a Sur Finanzas warehouse in Lomas de Zamora and caught its treasurer, Micaela Sánchez, trying to escape in a truck full of boxes and cell phones; Dignity, Micaela, Dignity: You must leave the camp on foot, with what you are carrying, your head held high and without looking back. At Villa Rosa, Chiqui has one of the best villas in the country, which is best guarded, and he cannot enjoy it because the police are stationed there so that he cannot come in to take things; Neither does Micaela. His salary at Conmebol is $43,000 per month, but at AFA he doesn’t earn a cent. He also earns well at Ceamse, but works in the garbage. Macri hates him… and Cristina hates him. How hard is everyday life for professional footballers?
Dear Jorge Lanata came up with the idea of investigating Tapia in 2019. The result: little things. That year he had taken 23 international flights on private planes that cost $1 million. They didn’t seem like business trips: he went with his whole family, with friends, and sometimes with ladies. Chiqui played great games. According to the AFA, all that remains of the young man who was forged in the garbage collectors’ guild is a sense of smell, which is immune to the smells of plague. It’s not like he smells fishy and runs away.
I admire his transparency: he allows two stadiums to bear his name, that the referees work together to shamelessly help his club, Barracas Central; that a company organizes the team’s friendly matches with a strange distribution: 70% to the company, 30% to the AFA. He appointed a certain Carlos Varela as president of Barracas and later made him the AFA’s exclusive digital agent; To accept the contract, one of Varela’s signatures was changed from “Metro Musical” to “Metro Digital”; What a player. Chiqui, you don’t ask, you just give! Because he was so generous, he took a chance on Toviggino and gave him the treatment reserved not for a manager but for a partner or a boss. I, Tapia, would be careful. We are witnessing the declaration of contrition by those who champion the cause of Cuadernos, the best series since the invention of streaming. In the last episode, Josecito López said that De Vido asked him to leave the money “in the sink or bidet.” Finally, It turned out that the K’s money laundering mechanism wasn’t that sophisticated. What if one day the deplorables of the AFA showed up? If Vallejo, Toviggino, Varela, the referees confessed… Chiqui, don’t play with fire; On the other hand, you have Javi, who is looking for you and is perhaps a messiah, but also a demon.
El Pelu arrived in Oslo on Tuesday for the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, dressed in the YPF romper. Nobody understood the reason for this costume. Only Chiqui understood. “Find out, Tapia, who owns the hose.”
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